Dates: Thursday 26 June
Time: 7.30pm - 10pm
Place: The Gig Space, Level 5
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
Trinity Laban Shapeshifter Ensemble x Peckham Levels
Rule Breakers: The roaring twenties and creative pioneers.
America gave birth to jazz, but Paris was the first to hail it as an art.
The creative scene in 1920s and 1930s Paris brought together artists, musicians, dancers, costume designers and writers to form a community who pioneered the ground-breaking artistic developments that defined the twentieth century. From Picasso, Man Ray and Hemingway to Josephine Baker, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the city gave life shaped the modern age.
Musically, Igor Stravinsky is probably the best-known name – and personality – of the era, with his collaborations with Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. Tonight, Trinity Laban’s Shapeshifter Ensemble celebrate other pioneers in Paris and the USA that might be familiar or new to you. Arthur Honegger, Jacques Ibert and Darius Milhaud defined music in France in the period, as well as American modernist, folk musicologist and composer Ruth Crawford Seeger in the USA.
Hear their work alongside Stravinsky and a brand new work from one of the Composition students in celebration of this era of creativity.